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by chrismealy 9y ago
The article rightly talks about the conflict between investors and consumers, but neglects the conflict between investors and workers. Index funds returns are returns to capital. For the vast majority of people, even people with lots in the
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This is silly. The biggest social programs in America are Social Security (basically a UBI for old folks), Medicare (health care), and the #1 economic development success of all time, public education. The kind of social programs they&#x27
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by chrismealy 9y ago
The fastest spacecraft ever built would take 4000 years to travel one light year.
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90% of graduates from law schools and medical schools are also men, so it's safe to assume there are some fundamental biological sex differences at work here. Oh wait, it's not 1970 anymore, and law and med grads are half women no
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Until I can pay taxes with it, not interested.
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Is the world really better than ever?(theguardian.com)
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by chrismealy 9y ago
The tooth fairy will change everything too. It's vaporware. People are getting themselves tied up into knots over vaporware.
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Entrepreneurs don’t have a gene for risk–they come from families with money(qz.com)
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All those African-Americans playing in the NFL, you think they're Republicans?
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Marathons were cool in the 70s and 80s. Now athletic people are into different sports.
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Maybe We’ve Been Thinking About the Productivity Slump All Wrong(mobile.nytimes.com)
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A lot of white Americans would rather be fucked over than risk helping non-whites.
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Kent Beck'a Smalltalk book. I've never used Smalltalk but it transfers to any dynamic OOP language. (It also used to be $25, yikes what happened?)
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by chrismealy 9y ago
In 1970 law and medical school graduates were about 10% female. Now it's about 50%. Did women change their interests? Are interests fixed? It doesn't matter. Just stop discriminating and give everyone the chance to develop their
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Do cities have a land area? And a literal use of the Joy Division map(sappingattention.blogspot.com)
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The Inefficiency of Construction and the Politics of Infrastructure(adamtooze.com)
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Car2go and ReachNow cars are always clean, at least in Seattle (I think once I saw a wrapper in a side door). When you're paying by the minute there's not much time to make a mess. This won't be a problem for self-driving car
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by chrismealy 9y ago
I don't get it either. When it comes to manned spaceflight rationality goes out the window. Humans living on Mars makes about as much sense as homeopathy. I think it's some kind of nerd religion.
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by chrismealy 9y ago
What percent of Americans have zero dollars in stocks and bonds? What percent of asset markets are owned by the 1%?
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by chrismealy 9y ago
It's not just about volume. Tracks mastered with a ton of compression trick your brain into sounding louder than they really are, which is great for a song or two (or if you want pay people to pay attention to your tv commercial), but
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by chrismealy 9y ago
IIRC there was a small town paper in the early in 1990s that wrote high school sports stories with a HyperCard stack.
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Model S is an old car. They need to design a new one.
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Constructing the cyber-troll: Psychopathy, sadism, and empathy(sciencedirect.com)
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I'm reading a lot of these answers and they could be describing companies that are hugely profitable and growing. Profitable companies cut back on coffee, have high turnover, cynical employees etc. It really doesn't matter. Any co
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by chrismealy 9y ago
The centrally-planned rational economy of the future is emerging from a few blocks in downtown Seattle.
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Where was all the equipment in the new factory made?
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by chrismealy 9y ago
Well ... for my body sugar is basically poison. I had chronic nasal congestion and sinus infections my whole life until I quit added sugar. It was basically a free miracle cure. I don't know why a chef is any better than any other non-
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by chrismealy 9y ago
The only stress I had in Amsterdam was "There are a lot of bikes here" and "Hard to pay attention to the road with all the great architecture." None of the "OMG that guy honking is going to murder me" stress yo
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by chrismealy 9y ago
I haven't read his new book, but I've read most of Sapolsky's older books and they're all excellent. "A Primate's Memoir" and "Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers" are my favorites.
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by chrismealy 9y ago
I had watched about a million Dutch cycling videos before I went to the Netherlands, but it's even better than the videos make it out. Cycling in the Netherlands is safe, easy, and fun. I rode around with a four-year-old and an almost-

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